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|   |   | Name: Furutobeite RRUFF ID: R060937 Ideal Chemistry: (Cu,Ag)6PbS4 Locality: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otavi District, Oshikoto, Namibia Source: William W. Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Steel gray metallic elongated prisms, associated with quartz, tennantite, and djurleite. Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. | 
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| RRUFF ID: | R060937.9 | ||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 20.048(1)Å    b: 3.9646(3)Å    c: 9.6985(8)Å alpha: 90° beta: 101.524(4)° gamma: 90° Volume: 755.3(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||
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| REFERENCES for Furutobeite | |
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| Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file] | |
| Sugaki A, Kitakaze A, Odashima Y (1981) Furutobeite, a new copper-silver-lead sulfide mineral, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 104, 737-741 | |
| Fleischer M, Cabri L J, Chao G Y, Mandarino J A, Pabst A (1982) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 67, 1074-1082 [view file] | |
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